Blog Money

Earn money on your website by using Adsense and/or Affiliate programs

When you have built up some traffic to your website, it’s time to start to earn money on it.

There are two different main ways to earn money on your website/blog. You may use Adsense and/or Affiliate programs depending on your strategy.

Adsense
Google is with no doubt the biggest adsense partner on the world wide web. And if you want to use Google, they will not allow you to use any other adsense programs, therefor I will refer to Google adsense in this post.

The absolute largest benefit with Adsense is the way the program adopts to the content on the website. If you have a blog with the main subject “Stock market” and uses Adsense links in the Sidebar, the ads will all be related to trading, but then you maybe want to make a post about “Environmental friendly cars”, and then the Adsense program just adjust the ads to this post. Briliant!

One aspect to consider about adsense is the payment you get per click. There are some “subjects” where the payment will be higher, but most common click rate is less than $1/click and the main rule is, broader subject equals lower payment per click.

Another aspect is about how good this text-links fit into your website design. If you have a well designed blog, then maybe the ad-links destroys more then it return’s on clicks.

Affiliate marketing
The easiest way to start affiliate marketing is to use some of portals for affiliates.
With example Google Ads, Google decides which links that appears on yours website. When you use affiliate programs, you can choose exactly who you will advertise and often you have the possibility to choose an appropriate banner that fits on yours website as well.

With Adsense programs you will only have return on clicks. With affiliate programs, the return may be much bigger because you will often get some percentage of the sales yours link produced.

One very good example of affiliate program is Amazon. Here you may write about a product and make a link to the product in the post to Amazon. If someone who reads yours article and get interested in the product buys the product, then you will get 4% of the sales price. So if you write about a Digital Camera that costs $1000 and four people buys this camera then you will earn $160.

Affiliate plus Adsense
The most recently used method is to have both Adsense and Affiliate advertises on your blog. The affiliate advertiser is good to catch people who are really interested in the subject and Adwords are for people “who just surfs around”.

In the end, the most important is the content of the website, a narrower the subject, the better all advertising tools will work. As I wrote in the “SEO for Wordpress” post, organic traffic from search engines gives a higher return than readers from toplistlinks.

May 20th, 2008 Posted by admin | Uncategorized | 3 comments